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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-21
Fay Ten.pietom's Diamonds.

A son of Claus Spreckels, the Sand
wich Islands sugar millionaire, was
deeply fascinated with Fay Templeton
while she was playing in San Francisco
some years ago, and he presented her
with numerous elegant and costly dia-
monds. The town knew Of his passion.
One night the funny man of the COM
pany approached Miss Templeton on
the stage and wetting his fingers
touched one of her largest diamonds
and asked: "Paste?" Quick as q
flash she retortcd: "No! Sugar!"
The whole house in an instant saw the
point and roar of laughter went up
such as never before or since has been
heard in Frisco.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-21
Witch is the BETTER Waye

To acquaint ourselves i'll the physical,
mental, and moral world with what is
wrong to orthodox thinking, in order to
combat it, or go on our way rejoicing
with what we think is positively right,
leaving the errors and unbelievers to
settle themselves? Both have their
uses and abuses. That some minds
seem cast in mold for combat, while
others are opponents Of peace methods,
goes without saying and seems to insure
the fact that each has its place, and will
find work in its own line and way. We
think Mr.. Moody on exponent of the
one, while Mr.. Joseph Cook is of the
other. The incalculable good that
each has insured is known only to the
Giver of every good and perfect gift,
and will have it's reward. Mr.. Moody
will not argue. We presume he thinks
it waste of time; and so it would be
for him. Why, when there is SO much
actual good to be done, while SO many
are thirsting for the water of life, why
not take the cup at once and press it to
the lips of the thirsty soul, rather than
stop to analyze the water, and be able
to determine the exact proportions of
its medicinal properties? Drink and
live; pass the cup till it is empty, and
then refill, with all speed, from the
never-failing fountain. This seems to
be Moody's method, and we know how
successful he is in accomplishing his
work but there are furnishing souls that
will not drink, though suffering, until
the water has been submitted to certain
crucial tests; just such proportion of
oxygen and hydrogen, as it were, be-
fore they dare wet their parched lips.
For such, Mr.. Joseph Cook, with his
great learning and large experience,
his strong. logical methods and clear
conclusions, is just the physician, and
we know. also, of his great success.
Whether in his own native land, in the
isles of the sea, or mid the effete civiliza-
ton of the orient we are proud to re-
cord his ability and adaptability to each
and all. To God be all the praise for
the labors of these, his chosen ones!
Still the question remains as to which
is the better way for us, the ordinary
mortals? A friend is searching Buckle,
Herbert Spencer, and that class of
writer's and thinkers. to be able to s,,c.
cessfully controvert their positions as
to spiritual things. She says, 1--WE
must know what is thought and written
by this class, that we may cope with the
objections they bring forward" Why?
we ask. What if we do not do it? They
are but men; why should their opinions
be of SO much consequence, if they are
opposed to Bible teaching and method?
Is the Bible to stand or fall by their
convictions, or are they to be judged by
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-21
ALMOST HINT.

It had grown to be somewhat later,
than is agreeable in the case of dull
companion, and conversation tagged,
This may have been owing less to q
lack of ideas on his part than lack of
encouragement on hers; at all events
she yawned very perceptibly number,
of times.
II think" he observed, breaking in
at the end of a long pause, that young
man must be aspiring to succeed. He
should not hesitate to reach out"
Every true" she replied, listlessly;
then with sudden animation: "Do you
know what I would love to see you
reach out for"
Mechanically he followed her eyes
took the hint, and reached out for his
hat,-Tid-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-21
Betrayed BY a Button,

one OF the best-laid schemes to do
murder" says Mr.. A. B. Candy, of the
Carleton Opera company, "was a plan
that was defeated by the merest chance
IN the Kellogg-Hess Opera Company,
years ago, when Mr.. Carleton was the
barysone OF that organization. A GER
tain artist playing prominent roles was
suspected by member of the chorus
with paying altogether too much atten-
ton to the chorister's wife, and the
artist was duly warned by his friends to
Keep close watch on the movements
OF the husband. One evening as he
was passing across the stage to his
dresslng-room, he Glanced to hear one
OF the wardrobe women say to another
that there were buttons off all the SOL
der uniforms.
Now, as the husband was to be one
OF file of soldiers whose duty it was to
fire volley OF shots at the artist as he
made his escape up rocky pass, the
absence of the buttons-little balls of
steel--soon awakened suspicion in his
mind. Before the curtain went up on
the act in which this incident occurred,
he went to the property man and in
sisted on having the charges in the
chorister's gun examined. The firearm
was taken from the husbands hands,
and when the load was drawn one of
the buttons was found rammed down
under wad. One button had been
cut from every uniform so as to conceal
the positive proof that the missile came
from the husbands gun. Had that
shot been fired and proved fatal, no
evidence but the thinnest of circum-
stantial testimony could have con-
nected the true murderer with the
tragedy. Isl Lo1tis Republican.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-21
The "No" Vas Emphatic.

Gentlemen" says polite manager
of an opera company to the troupe, II
understand there is some discomfort in
the company regarding my manage
ment. 1 WISH" he continues, splitting
on his hands and rolling up his sleeves,
"to have your unbiased opinion
on this subject. You will therefore, :"
he resumes, reaching behind his back
for a club, grasping it firmly, and
smiling blandly, "please state whether
you are dissatisfied with me. Answer
yes or no."
Jim, whispers the second tenor to
the basso, lis it raining yet?"
"Sort O. nisting," answers the basso,
"And the roads are muddy, aren't
they?"
"Horrid."
Gentlemen, remarks the still smil-
ing manager, Il am waiting your an
swer. Are you dissatisfied with me?"
A prompt and emphatic "No" was the
answer.
"Thanks, gentlemen. I expected no
less from your good sense. 1 shall
now," he remarks, slipping the club
gently behind the scenes, "write let
ter to the press explaining that I still
thank God!-possess the confidence
and esteem of my company"
The scene was SO affecting that it is
reported one of the members made q
stiff-legged faint.-Peoria Transcript
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-21
CAPITAL PUN1sHuENr IN CHINA.

In China capital punishment often
depends upon the within of the officer
Of the law. Here is an instance: Pen
Ia Rem, the rear admiral of the Yangtze
district, was passing up that river and
Glanced to overhear quarrel between
Il boatman and q soldier over the mat
ter of two cash-the price of ferriage
across q small stream. The admiral
took in the situation. The soldier had
been ferried over the stream, and then
refused to pay the poor ferryman.
There was principle involved. A large
number of soldiers were looking on and
apparently enjoying the ferryman's rage
at the loss of his wages.
An example was needed, and the
"Great Man." as his name signifies, who
was incognito, being on a tour of per-
sonal inspection, ordered tho soldier he
headed, which was done on the spot.
Willful murder, piracy, and confirmed
thieves fall under the beheadsman's
az. Infanticide, however, is not in
cluded as murder. The parent, by
Chinese law, has the right of life over
his own child; hence the practice of fe-
male infanticide. Adultery falls under
the life penalty at the will of the ag-
grieved party. Thus, husband de-
tecting his wife in adultery can go to
the magistrate and demand the capital
punishment of one or both parties to
the crime, or he may take the lives of
the offenders himself and not be
amenable if he can prove the fact. If,
however, he fails to substantiate the
crime alleged, he is held guilty of MUIR
der and punished accordingly.
Capital punishment can be met by
proxy and the law be satisfied. It is
not uncommon, therefore, when man
of money is sentenced to death that he
can, by the use of money, secure stay
of proceedings long enough to obtain a
substitute. This is done by making On
offer of one, two or more hundred
"taels" Ounces of silver, about 1884
cents, our standard) for q substitute.
Some impecunious family, often having
200 or 800 male members, as the patri-
archal plan of domestic economy pre-
walls, will agree among themselves that
they will furnish substitute for the
proffered sum. Lot is then cast to de-
termine the victim, and the doomed
man accepts his fate with stoical indif-
ference upon the ultra predestination
theory that his time has come, else the
lot would not have fallen to him indi-
vidually. He accordingly presents him,
self to the court, and the convicted man
dies by proxy, while the family Of the
deceased enjoy the proceeds Of the ar
augmentation Ton, IN Coe,smbto
J14rist.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-21
HEIGHT AVID wEI6Hr.

Those who would preserve the best
relation between height and weight may
be interested in the formula of DR..
Broca, the eminent French anthropol-
ogist, which provides that the human
body should weigh as many kilo-.
grammes as it measures in centimeters
over q meter. Thus man measuring,
one meter eighty centimeters COST;
inoheD should weigh eighty kilos
(l76. 81 pounds). Should his weight be
more or less, he is too stout or too thin.
AS men grow older they lose their
weight, but as . compensation they di-
minish in height also.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-21

-, The first night of "Paul pry" and
The Live Indian" produced Januarv
2 ..t' 1869, s7sl.25; "Forty winks" and
ioodles' February 2o), $50; "Dot"
(March 49,, $3.50. But two mat;naos IN
all were given; one of "Solon Single. !"
sol2' and one Of Cricket on the
Hearth" 1929. So
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-21

Bible students? We would not with
hold the need due to learning and re-
search, but when the Bible and it's
truths come to be measured by the
measure of man, even the greatest,
we must demur. just here, We hold,
is where George Eliot made her great
and fearful mistake. The logic of her
learned friends led her astray; hence
the hopeless, faithless blanks in her
later works. If she ever listened to
combat, which we do not know, she
listened to fall. Just here. comes in
the danger of listening to spiritualism,
IN its modern sense, and attending its
seances. Those fortified with learning,
and orthodox religious beliefs, have be-
come involved in hopeless and utter
confusion, so that bright lights have
gone out in darkness The confusion
OF Ignorance in this way, becomes q
thread leading through the windings of
labyrinth, in which the minotaur-
not the monster of Crete, but that of
spiritual blindness, sits enthroned, and
from which there is no extrication.
The doors into the region of light seem
forever barred behind the pilgrim pass
ing into the darkness. Dear Lord,
save us from the sin of unbeliefl-The
Interior.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-21
Z BxRD's-EYE VIEW OF THE EARr1.

If we imagine an observer contem-
plating the earth from convenient
distance in space, and scrutinizing it's
features as it rolls before him, we may
suppose him to be struck with the fact
that eleven-sixteenths of its surface are
covered with water, md that the land
is SO unequally distributed that from
one point of view he would see hemi-
sphere almost exclusively oceanic,
while nearly the whole of the dry land
is gathered in the opposite hemisphere.
He might observe that the great
oceanic area of the Pacific and Ant
artic Oceans is dotted with islands
like shallow pool with stones rising
above its surface-as if its general
depth were small in comparison with
its area. He might also notice that
mass.or belt of land surrounds each
pole, and that the northern ring sends
off to the southwark three vast tongues
of land and of mountaineering, ter
minating respectively in South America.
South Africa, and Australia, toward
which feebler and insular processes are
given off by the Antartic continental
mass. This, as some geographers have
observed, gives rudely three-ribbed
aspect to the earth, though two of the
three ribs are crowded together and
form the Europe-Asian mass or double
continent, while the third is isolated in
the single continent of America. He
might also observe that the northern
girdle is cut across, SO that the Atlantic
opens by wide space into the Arctic
Sea, while the Pacific is contracted
toward the north, but continent with
the Antarctic Ocean. The Atlantic is
also relatively deeper aud less cum
bered with islands than the Pacific,
which has the higher ridges near its
shores, constituting what some visitors
to the Pacific coast have not inaptly
called the "back OF the world" while
the wider slopes face the narrower
ocean, into which for this reason the
greater part of the drainage of the
land is poured. The Pacific and At
lantic, though both depressions or
flattenings of the earth are, as we shall
find, different in age, character, and
conditions; and the Atlantic, though
the smaller, is the older, and from the
geological point of view, in some re-
spects. the more important of the two.
If our imaginary observer had the
means of knowing anything of the rock
formations of the continents, he would
notice that those bounding the North
Atlantic are in general of great age,
some belonging to the Laurentian sys-
tenn. On the other hand, he would see
that many of the mountain ranges
along the Pacific are comparatively new,
and that modern igneous action occurs
in connection with them. Thus he
might be led to believe that the At
lantic, though comparatively narrow, is
an older feature of the earth's surface
while the Pacific belongs to more
modern times. - Popular Science
Monthly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-21

A GOOD word is an easy obligatisa:
but not to speak i'll. requires only our
silence, which costs MS nothing.-zsl.
l0ts0n.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-21


TRAINING CHILDREN .iT TIE Table
Cnildren's fancies in the matter of
diet are only occasionally worthy OF
Serious consideration. There may be
constitutional peculiarities which rem
der certain kinds of food obnoxious to
them, but with very rare exceptions;
strenuous efforts should be made by
the parents to conquer such aversions.
Much discomfort would be spared the
children and those with whom they as
sociate in later life could these vagaries
be checked at the very outset. One
child dislilses roast beef, another re-
fuses to eat bread. Still o third will
not touch fruit or any kind of animal
food except poultry. Very often the
whim is only adopted for that passion
fol" showing-off, Inherent in the childish
nature. and which is not always lacking
in children Of a larger growth. The
child is father of the man, and the boy
who is "&1ssy' about his eating in youth
is apt to be opinionated and selfish in
maturity.
Akin to this piece of eccentricity are
tricks of table manners. These are
more frequently seen in men than in
women, either because the latter are
more easily led and thus more easily
influenced to correct and quiet de-
meanor, Or because boys are thrown
more into rough company of doubtful
breeding than are their sisters. What
ever the cause, the fact renders doubly
important the careful training Of chill
dren while under the home roof The
boy who makes melange of all the
food on his plate. using the knife first
as implement with which to mix the in.
gradients into an indistinguishable mass,
and then as the shovel with which he
piles his sork an inch high before con.
yeying it to widely-opened mouth, is
not apt to be graceful addition to a
dinner party when he attains years OF
discretion, or, indeed, to give much
pleasure by his presence at any re-
past. Habits formed in early youth
stick through life with the tenacity OF
burrs.
A mistaken kindness frequently with
holds parents from correcting little &C.
items denoting awkwardness on the part
of their children. Many mothers have an
intense dread of "nagging," and justly.
One must take into account the OBJ
stinacy and perversity of children that
may sometimes be accounted for by
heredity, but is in other cases unex-
plainable. Often it seems as if the
mere endeavor to break child of a
fault only rooted it more deeply, until
the mentor is fairly discouraged and
yields the point sooner than cause fur
Their hard feeling by perpetual scold-
ing. Such course almost inevitably
brings regret sooner or later to both
mother and child. To say nothing Of
the wretched. principle involved by the
guardian confessing herself foiled in
an encounter of this sort, a piece of
childish naughtiness or ill-breeding as
sumes much more formidable proper
lions when he who practices it is twenty
instead CT ten.-Christine Terhuase
Herrich.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-21

EVERY man who observes vigilantly,
and resolves steadfastly, grows uncon-
sciously into genius.-Bsll,uss.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-21
He Dre.o the Line at Eating.

The former manager of an unfortu-
nate local theatrical venture was nego-
tiating for certain dramatic attraction
to fill the following week of dates. He
received telegram from the agent of
the company, agreeing to come for so
per cent. of the gross receipts. AL
though staggered at first by such I'M
heard -of terms, the Lowell manager re-
covered sufficiently to wire a reply in
these words: Cannot give you more
than IS per cent. Willing to go
ragged. Must eat. "-Lo,ceU (Mass.)
Citizen.
The sympathetic side of a Southern
woman's nature asserted itself at q
recent performance at Macon, Ga.
Nine. Janish was playing princess
Andrea" The heroine returns to find
her husband gone, in spite of her gentle
arts, to seek an actress with whom he
is in love. There is signal arranged
by the wife for the detention of her re-
creant lord. It is q powerful scene,
and so absorbed did woman become
that, fearing the signal would not be
oiyen. she rose in her seat and called
out to the actress Don't forget to put
the light in the Window Don't forget
to nut the light in the Window" It
pleased the house, and it doubtless
eratified Janish, but it was dangerouz
to the gravity Of the scene.
Little Falls transcript., 1887-05-20
Two American Adventures i'm
Luck.

The New York Suns London cor
respondent tells OF q reception where
he found himself almost face to face
with Lady Cook. memories crowded
thick upon each other of old times in
Wall street and in many other places
where had met Tennie C. Clafin and
Victoria Woodruff, her sister, the re-
moved firm OF Woodruff & Clafin,
who conducted that memorable stock
brokerage enterprise with which the
late Commodore Vanderbilt amused
himself and which eliminated when
Woodruff & Clafin's Weekly
went from one end Of Amer.
lea to the other like sirocco OF
sulpuretted hydrogen. saw Ten.
nie's sister, Victoria, now Lady Bid
dulph Martin, with her husband, Sir
John Biddulph Martin, advance and
take their places among the foremost
of the royal group. Lady Martin,
cold, intellectual and refined of bear
ing, quietly but elegantly dressed, mis-
tress of her situation and OF herself,
was indeed none other than the cele.
brated relict of Coils. Woodruff and
Blood and the apostle Of the late Ste
phen Pearl Andrews, the impassioned
exponent of the doctrine OF P ntarchy
the friend of Isabella Beecher Hooker
and the editor and publisher of the
paper in which the Beecher scandal
first saw thelight. Tbeprince of Wales
speech fell upon an inattentive ear. ]
had only eyes and ears for these won
derful sisters and as saw them driv
en- homeward by their obsequious
lackeys, I said to myself: Truly
there is nothing that succeeds like sue
cess. 1t overcomes all things!'"
Little Falls transcript., 1887-05-20
Il LoyEYou.~


he has said the sweetest Of human words
Sweeter than any song OF birds a~s#
i love YOU"
setter than wealth, or Jewels rare, s
Fairer than any flower is fair,
diaddeniDg the heart like the morning sun
I Are these words from the lips OF prsciou,
@s 3s II love you"
The eyes may speak It, the fingers ten
The beautiful story we love SO well.
But best OF all is the whisper low SCR.
From q soul as white as the falling snow
II love you.n Il 4
In the saddest hour or the darkest night
There comes again to my longing sight
The tender look Of the soft brown eyes,
And listen anow with glad surprise,
II love you"
Comes into my heart with mystic power.
! ask no more than that sacred hour
To cherish and hold till eyes grow dim, .
And the life to come is lie with him
II love you." a.gt
SARAH K. BoLroN.
Little Falls transcript., 1887-05-20
Laughing at the Wrong Time.

That laughter may be often mis-
placed and Indicative of strong nerv-
Gus excitement is thus illustrated by
q philos ophizing writer in the PhilA-
delphia Call:
Ionce saw g. fellow laugh at the odd
appearance which a condemned man
presented as the cap was secured on
his head and the hangman reached
for the moose. But the look Of the
strangely-moved man only showed
that he was screwing his courage to the
sticking point while awaiting the ter
rible shock which would tell that the
slack of the rope had run out. But
the most brutal howls OF delight
think ever listened to came from
hardened audience who had come to
see a "knock out" It was to be q
"kid-glove" affair. How strangely
out of place d-gloves'' seemed herel
1t wasn't the rag-tag which had gath
cred to witness the combat either. 1t
was a well-dressed, apparently re-
spectacle crowd. To the end of the
first round all went merry as a mar
riage bell. Slugging ruled. But as one
bruiser successfully brought the claret
from his antagonists nose, closed first
his left eye, then his right, and finally
wound up his handiwork by knocking
his jaw awry, the mobbish onlookers
gave themselves up to unrestrained glee
and laughter to their hearts content
at the comical appearance OF a man
with both eyes closed and his jaw out
of joint. 1t was indeed 'ghoulish glee.'
You see instances every day in which
laughter takes the place OF sympathy.
A good deal Of it arises from mere
thoughtlessness. For example, I saw
a great hulking fellow laugh quite
heartily one cold night at fire.
man, who, just as he appeared in
the second story of a burning build
ing, received g. stream of water
full in the stomach. He was hurled
back into the flames and smoke by
the force of the water. The fellow
who thought the occurrence 80 funny
at first was not the last to realize it's
seriousness and mount the ladder to
the rescue of the unfortunate.